AI native catering software
Get your time back.
Stop answering calls
and emails for orders.
An hour goes to every catering order — the call, the emails on sizes and counts, the deposit you chase. Two a week is two and a half weeks of your year in the inbox. And the ones you answer late, you don't get at all.
A year on catering phone tag, emails, and follow-up
104hrs
Hours once the site takes the order for you
0hrs
Win more orders. Cook more. Make more.
Setup in days, not weeks. Flat monthly fee — no commission, no marketing or service fees.
The problem
Stop losing customers who never heard back — or never knew what to order
She emailed Monday for Thursday's lunch, and she doesn't know if thirty people means three pans or six. You were on the line — so she ordered from whoever answered.
of orders abandoned when she can't work out how much to get.
the caterer who answers first usually gets the order.
hours a year on calls, emails, and follow-up.
Your hour, today
- Phone rings at 12:15
- Email: “how many pans?”
- Call back with a price
- Re-send the quote by email
- Chase the deposit
An hour gone. So is she.
Your hour, with Kater
- She enters the headcount
- Kater sizes it: 30 people, 4 pans
- AI coach checks the order
- She pays in your brand
- It hits your prep line, paid
Answered in seconds. Won.
How it works
Three steps. Zero confusion.
The wizard asks one question per screen and does the math your customers are afraid of getting wrong.
Tell us about the event
Breakfast, lunch, or a snack event. Headcount. Dietary notes. That's all we ask.
“Just tell us how many people are coming.”
Kater sizes the order
Thirty people, four pans. Kater calculates exact portions per person against their budget and recommends the right items from your menu. No math required.
“Here's exactly what you need. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Checkout in one shot
They pay online through your own processor and get a confirmation in your brand. The order flows straight into your Clover or Square. No emails. No callbacks.
“Order placed. You're set for Tuesday.”
Why Kater
The site takes the whole order without you
01
No calls. No emails. No follow-up.
She doesn't know how many pans for thirty. The site does, and answers in seconds.
02
Answer first. Win the order.
She emails three places. The one who answers first usually gets it. Yours answers in seconds.
03
Keep more from your catering jobs
Flat monthly fee. No commission, no marketing or service fees.
04
Processing your way
You still pay Clover, Square, or Stripe their standard rate, direct to them.
A marketplace owns the relationship and the order record. Here, you do.
What it costs you
Not a template. Not a marketplace.
Kater integrates with the website, POS, and processor you already have. Your brand leads, you keep the customer relationship, and you keep the revenue.
0%
Win the orders you were losing to a slow reply — and keep more of every one. No commission, no marketing or service fees. A marketplace stacks about 18% on every order, forever. You keep paying your own processor their standard rate, direct.
Ordering through a marketplace
- 15% commission plus 2.99% on every order
- The same template every other caterer gets
- The marketplace owns your customer relationship
- Their checkout, their rules, their data
Ordering through Kater
- A flat monthly fee — no commission, no service fees
- Built around your menu, your portions, your brand
- You own every customer and every order record
- You pick the processor: Clover, Square, or Stripe
No commission, no marketing or service fees. You still pay your own processor — Clover, Square, or Stripe — their standard rate, direct to them. Marketplace figure: ezCater's published rate, July 2026 (15% plus 2.99%).
AI native
Most catering software was built 10 years ago. Kater is AI native.
That's not a chatbot bolted onto old software — the platform itself is built AI native, top to bottom. It's what makes custom fast instead of expensive: software shaped to one caterer's operation, set up in days, at a price a single location can carry.
An order coach, not a form
AI reviews every order before checkout — flags gaps, questions odd quantities, and suggests what the event is missing, using knowledge of your menu.
Menu updates by conversation
Tell it “brisket is up two dollars a pound and we're out of peach cobbler this week” — the menu, portions, and pricing update. No spreadsheet.
It learns your operation
Every order teaches the platform your portions, your pairings, and your customers' patterns — so recommendations and forecasts keep getting sharper.
Features
Built for both sides of the counter
Your customers get confidence. You get orders that arrive complete, paid, and ready for the prep line.
Portion math, always visible
Every item shows what it feeds. Customers never have to guess whether one pan is enough or two.
AI order coach
Before checkout, an AI review flags gaps, quantity issues, and sensible add-ons drawn from your menu knowledge.
Drafts and reorders
Customers resume in-progress orders and repeat last quarter's lunch in one tap.
Paid up front
Full payment, deposits with balance due, or payment links for phone-in orders — through your own processor.
Orders on your prep line
A dashboard with status workflow, production reports, and delivery management. Big type, glanceable, printable.
Know who's due back
VIP customers and repeat-order patterns, so you know which accounts are due a nudge.
Flagship
Built on the line at Lexington Betty Smokehouse, a working Chicago caterer — not in a conference room.
For operators
The admin side runs your day
Everything behind the counter lives in one dashboard — built for the prep line, not the back office. Big type, glanceable status, printable.
Order management
Every order with its status — new, confirmed, in prep, out for delivery. Nothing gets lost in an inbox.
Menu management
Change prices, sizes, and availability by telling the admin what changed. It handles the rest.
Production and prep reports
The day's orders roll up into one prep sheet: what to smoke, how much, and when it leaves the building.
Custom order workflows
Shape the steps an order moves through to match how your kitchen actually runs, not a generic pipeline.
VIP customers
Flag the accounts that order every quarter, hold their usual order, and surface the ones due a reorder nudge.
Menu engineering
Which items carry the margin and which just carry weight. Item performance, for owners.
Pricing
A monthly fee, not a cut of every order.
A marketplace stacks about 18% on every order, forever. On $5,000 a month of catering that is roughly $900, and it grows with your sales. Kater is a setup fee and a flat monthly fee. You pick your processor and keep what it settles.
Starter
then $75/mo
Guided ordering on your domain.
- Guided ordering wizard on your domain
- Portion and pricing engine
- Online payments through your own processor
- Order confirmations in your brand
Growth
Most commonthen $125/mo
Adds the admin side: order management and menu management.
- Everything in Starter
- Order management dashboard
- Menu management with AI chat
- Production and prep reports
- AI order coach at checkout
- Clover and Square POS sync
Pro
then $199/mo
Adds custom order workflows and VIP customers.
- Everything in Growth
- Custom order workflows
- VIP customers and reorder radar
- Menu engineering dashboard
No commission, no marketing or service fees. You still pay your own processor — Clover, Square, or Stripe — their standard rate, direct to them. Marketplace figure: ezCater's published rate, July 2026 (15% plus 2.99%).
Setup in days, not weeks.·AI‑powered platform.
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See a site that takes the whole order without you
Fifteen minutes and we'll show you your own menu running inside it. We set up the storefront, load the menu, and connect your POS. You keep cooking.
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